Documentation/snippets/forcing-hyphens-to-be-shown.ly


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%% DO NOT EDIT this file manually; it is automatically
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%% Make any changes in LSR itself, or in Documentation/snippets/new/ ,
%% and then run scripts/auxiliar/makelsr.py
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\version "2.14.2"

\header {
  lsrtags = "vocal-music"

  texidoc = "
If LilyPond does not think there is space for a hyphen, it will be
omitted.  The behaviour can be overridden with the
@code{minimum-distance} property of @code{LyricHyphen}.

"
  doctitle = "Forcing hyphens to be shown"
} % begin verbatim


\relative c'' {
  c32 c c c
  c32 c c c
  c32 c c c
  c32 c c c
}
\addlyrics {
  syl -- lab word word
  \override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #1.0
  syl -- lab word word
  \override LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance = #2.0
  syl -- lab word word
  \revert LyricHyphen #'minimum-distance
  syl -- lab word word
}